L. (Laura) Rachman

My research focuses on the effects of hearing loss and aging on voice and speech perception. During my PhD at IRCAM and the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris, I investigated the role of speaker and language familiarity on emotional voice perception, using voice transformation software. I am interested in combining behavioral and electrophysiological (EEG) measures to study different processing stages involved speech perception, from low-level perception of voice cues to higher level speech understanding.